The trouble with truthmakers
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Abstract
This paper argues that theories of truth which seek to specify the ontological ground of true statements by appealing to an ontology of truth-makers face a severe and possibly insurmountable obstacle in the form of logically complex statements. I argue that there is no apparent way to develop an account of logically complex truth within the confines of a modest and plausible ontology of truth-makers and to this end criticize independent attempts by Armstrong and Pendlebury to develop such an account.
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Damian Cox. "The trouble with truthmakers" Pacific philosophical quarterly 78 (1997): 45-62.
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